You are probably asking why would you want to bother to learn how to self install WordPress when your hosting package has a one click button to do it for you. Well, here’s some reasons (from past experience):

•You don’t know what version of WordPress the hosting’s one click button will install.

WordPress is constantly improving it’s security. Quite often the one click install buttons at your hosting company are not kept as up to date as if you had gone to the WordPress site and picked up a copy yourself.

•You don’t know what features the hosting company has disabled.

Especially as a new blogger, you won’t know what features come with WordPress and which of those features the hosting company has disabled.

•Some make it difficult to backup the database and your WordPress files.

Another mystery why they would do this, but it does happen. One should not rely on the web hosting to backup your site as you never know when they do it. You could have spent a whole day tweaking your WordPress blog and adding content and then a few hours later the web server crashes. If this happens between the web hosts last backup and their next one, all your work is lost if you have not backed up the site yourself.

With a self installed instance of WordPress you will have all the features that come with WordPress, be able to backup the database and backup your WordPress files.

Even if the version is out of date you can just update it from within the CMS.

You can install it yourself if you want more control on the database etc. as Tigrrr said! Although even with a one click most hosts will allow you to modify database passwords and access levels anyway!